WRINKLE ATTACK!

SO LAST YEAR: Slow and steady progress.
SO NOW: Fast-acting formulae.
While fine lines can be eased over time with an everyday moisturiser, what we want is baby-smooth skin, now! The answer? Steam. Steamcream, £9.95, works by using steam during

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formulation to fuse together key ingredients. Doing this means that when the formula hits your skin, it breaks down more quickly, allowing elasticity-boosting orange flower water and cell-repairing vitamin E to penetrate faster than other creams. Use daily to blitz wrinkles, sharpish!
OR TRY: Nivea Visage Expert Lift Day Cream, £17.59. It claims to visibly plump and smooth lines within an hour, thanks to an advanced formula that includes hyaluronic acid, which refreshes skin deep down while holding on to water molecules to make skin appear more youthful.

SO LAST YEAR: Day and night application.
SO NOW: After-hours skincare.

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Sleep is the optimum state for skin repair - there's no pollution or sunlight, and it can focus on regenerating cells. Boffins at Estée Lauder have discovered that each cell has its own clock, and the new Chronolux formula in Advanced Night Repair Synchronized Recovery Complex, £36, synchronises cells' repair cycles so they work together - making you look like you're 18 again (hopefully)!
OR TRY: Eucerin Hyaluron Filler Night Cream, £24.99. This helps accelerate natural hyaluronic acid production, which plumps skin while you snooze. Now that's beauty sleep!

SO LAST YEAR: Expensive, flash packaging.
SO NOW: No frills, hard-working creams.
Yes, we all love a product that looks nice on our dressing table, but is it being good to our skin? Dermatologists admit that using an inexpensive daily moisturiser and sun

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protection on top can be more effective at slowing down skin ageing than more expensive creams. So stock up on Superdrug Skin Essentials Camomile Moisture Cream. This new moisturiser leaves your complexion silky and smooth and costs just £1! Turbo-charge it during the day with a sunscreen like Banana Boat Sport Sunscreen Stick SPF 30, £5.49.
OR TRY: Protect & Prevent Youth Boost Serum, £6.84, by Tesco's newly revamped Skin Wisdom beauty line. The range is packed with antioxidant, youth-boosting ingredients like white tea and pomegranate. Use a few drops on clean skin every morning before you moisturise.

SO LAST YEAR: Blitzing surface wrinkles.
SO NOW: Fighting lines deep down.
When it comes to really quashing those wrinkles, creams have to start working on a deep level - on the stem cells that lurk beneath and regenerate and repair the skin. Cue the

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new anti-ageing genius from Lancôme. Absolue Precious Cells day cream, £118, uses plant stem cell extracts made up of collagen, perlecan and integrin - which are the key ingredients for delving down into the complex structure of your skin. It may be pricey, but you only need a small amount so one tub lasts for ages. Plus, after using it for just two months, tests showed a 30 per cent improvement in signs of ageing, such as jaw sagging.
OR TRY: Adonia Stemulift Serum, £49, is a favourite with Hollywood's finest, including Cameron Diaz and Anne Hathaway. Packed with Greek plant stem cells, it claims to reduce wrinkles in just nine days when applied day and night. Smooth skin, here we come!

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SO LAST YEAR: Wrinkle-specific skincare.
SO NOW: All-in-one age-busting formulations.
Multi-purpose products are hot, hot, hot right now - and practically scorching our fingers is Roc Retin-Ox Wrinkle Correxion Intensive Anti-Wrinkle Serum, £29.99. Proven to reduce wrinkles by 30 per cent, it's packed with vitamin A to smooth out fine lines, as well as a natty little number called squalan - a natural oil that locks moisture in, stops sagging and brightens and smooths the skin. The only thing that it doesn't do is apply itself!
OR TRY: Clinique's new Even Better Skin Tone Correcting Moisturiser SPF20, £32. As well as rehydrating tired skin, this multi-purpose miracle tackles pigmentation (dark and discoloured patches of skin) with the help of brightening vitamin C and a unique yeast blend.

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